David Fenimore
is a lecturer in the English department. In addition to Core Humanities,
he teaches introductory courses in language, literature, writing, and storytelling.
As a traveling Chautauquan, he has developed scholarly portrayals of western
writer Zane Grey, editor Horace Greeley, and California pioneers Lewis Keseberg
and Captain John Sutter. He earned his B.A. from the University of
Pennsylvania and an M.A. in English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where
he has taught since 1989. Publications include Bicycling Across
America (1989) and A Bad Boy Grown Up (1995). His lecture,
"Religious Reformation, Intellectual Revolution," was broadcast
in the KNPB series, The Western Traditions Lectures. During
2001-2003, David Fenimore was the University Distinguished Professor of
the Humanities, delivering public lectures on protest songs and on Michael
Frayn's Copenhagen, among others.